What Are You Thinking Missouri???

I am a fan of Missouri football (especially when they were in the Big Eight), but I do have a bone to pick with them regarding their scheduling – especially after reading two days ago that they scheduled a three-game series with Florida Atlantic.  Really?  I understand that the Tigers play in a loaded SEC, but they only have eight conference games.  I will give them a pass on scheduling local FCS teams, as well as a Group of Five team each year to help those schools out.  But that still leaves Missouri with two games in which they could boost their resume with Power 5 teams.

This is when I start scratching my head and saying, “What the hell are they thinking scheduling the Owls?”  It has been nine years since they left the Big Twelve for greener pastures, but the Tigers have only played two games against their former Conference opponents from the Big Eight – and both times it was a bowl game against Oklahoma State.  They have scheduled almost all their non-conference games up through 2030 – and three of their oldest opponents (Kansas, Iowa State, and Nebraska) are nowhere to be seen on the Tiger’s schedule.  These old Big Eight teams have each played Missouri more than one hundred times since the late 19th century!

To the Athletic Department at Missouri – get your head out of your butt and start scheduling your former conference opponents mentioned above, especially the Jayhawks!  Those games would generate a lot more interest and revenue than playing the likes of Boston College, New Mexico State and Middle Tennessee!